bill peduto
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Court Blocks DA Investigating Cops Involved in Black Man’s Death
The movement for justice for Jim Rogers in Pittsburgh continues
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Pittsburgh Mayor’s Response to Pittsburgh-Area Teen Killed by Police: My Name’s Dewitt and I Don’t Give a Shit
I didn’t think it was possible for a series of tweets to accurately synopsize a city (Pittsburgh), a country (America), a mindset (whiteness), a political policy (kind colonization) and a person, but Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto somehow did exactly that. Last night, Shaun King tweeted out the news about the death of Antwon Rose Jr.,…
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The Mayor of Pittsburgh Had Young Black Drummers Dressed as Civil War-Era Soldiers at His Inauguration and I Have Questions
Bill Peduto was inaugurated as mayor of Pittsburgh on Wednesday, officially beginning his second term in office. I don’t really have many thoughts about Peduto himself. He seems like he’s perpetually campaigning to be the mayor of a city that only exists in Nancy Meyers movies, but I guess that’s ambitious or something. I do,…